John D. Imboden

John D. Imboden (16 February 1823-15 August 1895) was a general of the Confederate States Army, mainly commanding cavalry in the American Civil War.

Biography
Imboden was born in Staunton in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, attending Washington College, but not earning a degree. He later taught at a school for the dumb, deaf, and blind, and also served as a member of the House of Delegates for the Virginia State Assembly. In November 1859 he became a captain of the Virginia State Militia's Staunton Artillery, and he joined the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War.

He lost his hearing in his left ear in the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 due to the loud noise of a cannon blast, and he aided Stonewall Jackson in his Valley Campaign. From April to May 1863, aided by William E. Jones, he launched a raid on the B&O Railroad and in July he served as the rearguard for Jeb Stuart. He escorted supply and wounded trains in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg, and continued to fight in Virginia until incapacitated by typhoid fever in 1864. He was made the commander of the Aiken POW camp in South Carolina and commanded prison camps until the end of the war, and he was paroled. In 1886 he founded the town of Damascus, and he mined coal and ore.